In Meeting St. Matthew Today, preeminent biblical scholar Daniel J. Harrington, SJ, helps laypeople understand the riches of Matthew's Gospel. This quick-moving yet insightful book provides a thoughtful and non-threatening introduc...

Makes accessible some of the best modern scholarship on encountering Jesus in the Scriptures. With a focus wider than the historians quest, these essays try to explain not only who Jesus was in the first century but also what he might...